Questions tagged [desktop-application]
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Is it wise for a Production Browser App to Access Localhost Server
I'm looking at doing something like this:
Browser <-> Desktop App <-> SQLite DB
My first thought was, this opens potential access to that SQLite db to every web app that the user interacts ...
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How Can GitFlow Work for Multi-Product Releases?
I am looking to adopt GitFlow for a multi-product repository. This repo contains multiple on-prem applications and libraries. Due to the nature of the products, releases are not frequent and we do not ...
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How do you design applications with client-based DBs?
Here's what a typical application that adopted the client-server architecture looks like:
A client-based frontend issues requests to a company backend server
The company backend server accepts the ...
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How to develop a desktop software with components based on several different technologies
If I give a real example, I want to create a desktop software that includes:
electron js app that communicates with react js using IPC channels.
I need to communicate with software that only has a ...
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Working with a poorly written piece of software as an entry-level developer with no support or documentation [duplicate]
I'm and entry-level developer straight out of college. I am the only developer at this company.
I feel the challenges I face are different to most people working with sub optimal or very poorly ...
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Saving and reading files in user specific application data in C or C++
Most useful or reasonably complex applications need to save data such as user settings or saved games or browser history. I have been working on applications and games in C or C++ but I am not sure ...
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Architecture review for desktop application with distributed components
We are planning on building a desktop application with a few web components. I want to know how resilient is this architecture.
Essentially the design looks like
Mixing web components with desktop ...
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Best way to handle versioning between a desktop product and a cloud product when one depends on the other
Let's say that there are two products, product A and product B.
Product A is a desktop product that customers download and install locally on their machine. This product follows a typical versioning ...
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Is it a bad practice to use cookies for a Desktop Application?
I'm working on a Desktop App in C# that communicates with a Java backend hosted AWS.
I want to deploy on multiple instances and use an Application Load Balancer with sticky sessions but as Far as I ...
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Direct Database Access for Desktop GUI or via Application Server?
We have a scenario that is in a VERY tightly controlled industrial environment. This is all C# on Windows.
We gather data from different types of sources - sensors monitoring environmental data, ...
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How do desktop applications get notified of events over the internet?
I would like to display something on my desktop by tapping a button on my mobile app.
For example, there is a "show cat" button on my mobile app. When I tap that button, a new window should ...
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Exception handling with failure atomicity in desktop applications
When it comes to exception handling, there are many guidelines and best practices on the web. On of them is to throw early, catch late, or even Don't Catch. So when facing an exception, the current ...
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Does it make sense to reuse microservices in a desktop application with an "offline" mode?
Lets say we have a microservice architecture consisting of:
multiple frontend clients, e.g. an Android App, an iOS App, and a Javascript Web Frontend
a Java Spring (HTTP Rest) microservice to access ...
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In an MVC desktop application, is there a canonical solution to share an immutable value class between multiple components?
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In the context of an MVC, desktop architecture, is there a canonical solution or a design pattern / best practice to give access to an immutable value class to multiple components at ...
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What is the best practice for monolithic desktop frontend-backend communication?
For a monolithic desktop application with two projects - a frontend and a backend, both in C#, what would be the best practice for communication between them?
The frontend needs to make calls to the ...
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